The WebAuthn user.id is an opaque handle of up to 64 bytes and must not contain an email address
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:01.698Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:01.698Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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user.id is a byte sequence of 1 to 64 bytes that the authenticator stores and returns as the user handle. It is never displayed, but anyone holding the authenticator can enumerate it, so putting an email address or username there leaks account identity from a lost security key.
It also has a hard uniqueness requirement. Authenticators overwrite an existing credential when the RP ID and user handle both match, so reusing one handle across two accounts silently destroys the first passkey. And it must be stable for the life of the account, because changing it orphans every existing credential. Use a random 16 or 32 byte value stored on the user row, and put the human-readable strings in user.name and user.displayName where they belong.
Source: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-3/
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